Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...World Bank last week was beginning to feel like a village moneylender. Its capacity to lend could scarcely make a dent in world needs. Wistfully, President John J. McCloy told of plans to float the bank's first debentures in July-$250 million worth, at around 3% interest. If they are sold, other issues will be floated. The cash from the first issue will just replace the $250 million lent to France. It will leave the bank with only the $727 millions in U.S. currency it now has available for loans. But the world's need...
...Bite. In Indianapolis, Landlady Esther Lemons lispingly complained to police that a tenant had moved out with bag, baggage and a set of teeth (lowers) that she had been generous enough to lend...
...know what the conditions are now under the Bolshevik occupation. There are rumors that the beaches are declared prohibited military zones, in order to eliminate flight by the Baltic Sea. Even fishing boats are watched carefully by escorting speedboats supplied during the war to the Bolsheviks under Lend-Lease. I don't think that at present there is any bathing at the Baltic Riviera, drenched with blood. Who could enjoy...
...high Administration official, who cautiously insisted upon anonymity, thought it was time that the Administration told the nation exactly what it had to do: "The only thing which really fits our needs is the peacetime equivalent of Lend-Lease. Only if we recognize that and compel Congress to recognize it can we operate properly." To win World War II the U.S. had expended in Lend-Lease $50.7 billion. Measured against that and against a national income of $177 billion, a $4 billion investment in peace seemed reasonable...
Rank's lend-lease arrangement with Hollywood has not been all sugar & spice. A good many British stars who have come to the U.S. are considering staying (Rex Harrison, Lilli Palmer, James Mason, Deborah Kerr...